The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-20
CON NECTICUT TURKEYS.
WHY THEY ARE SAID TO DE BETTER
THAN OTHER TURKEYS
Their Hickory Nutsto WIND
Up with-Tho Annual e5-pound White
Maunn Turkey frem North hteninRton.

THAN OTHER TURKEYS
Their enins'Foed-Hfickery Nut.to WIND
Up with-Tho Annual 25-pound White
Heuse Turkey rrsm North stenington.
Norwich, Nov. 19-"The Connecticut
Thanksgiving turkey is going to be high this
year." said a largo dealer in poultry. Yer.
mont and Western turkeys will hold at abou,
the usual 1gure-1S cents q pound-but the
Nutmeg bird will be 20, and perhaps 90 cents.
Tho Connecticut turkey has u blooming
reputation for jucIness and flavor, especially
flavor. He acquires II by travelling all the
summer and fall over the wide, breezy pastures
and filing himself 80 full Of grasshoppers and
| beetles that he can barely flap into his roost
In tho farmstead trees ut nightfall. A diet OF
beetles and grasshoppers gives game flavor
to his flesh. and every turkey In the State
seems to know that 1t Is two cents or more 10
his credit to follow the established regimen
Of his tribe. So generally recognized is tho
fame Of the Connecticut bird that 1t is said
tho great poultry handlers in New York readily
Day the two or four cents premium on turkeys
from this State. Vermont and Western tur-
keys. 1t is admitted, may be Just as fat, Just az
tender and personally quite as stately and
proud, but they lack the nameless. piuuant
quality that pervades the Nutmeg product, and
which epicures are willing to pay for.
A story Is going about this season that the
Connecticut fowl has been afflicted with Q
queer kind OF disease that is like the epizootic,
that the sneezing and coughing. which are
symptomatic Of the complaint, have thlnned
out the focks. destroying tho corpulent mem
bers and wearing the thin ones to shadow,and
that this incident is responsible for the higher
price this fall. Whether 1t is true or false, the
story is likened by consumers to the annual
fable about the peach blight.
At about this time the wholesale poultry
Spectator gets out through the country to bug
the crop at modest figures Of the farmers. He
halls other from Boston or Providence. He
drives q fancy team and sharp bargain
Whether 1t is turkeys, geese ducks. or chick.
ems. 1t Is all the same to him. II he can buy
cheap enough. He orders all his purchases
delivered at the railroad station. to be shipped
to his city depot on an appointed date, with
out faii;" and. having received his consign-
ments, he disposes OF his property to the big
city marketmen at a cent or half cent d
the raisers Most farmers sell to the specula.
tors. but many prefer to take the risk Of max.
Ing directly with the marketmen. " 'N
There Is no part OF this state that raises SO
R ali hs oSns IL ess
ern Connecticut in the ABUNDANCE and supe-
r ba virtues Of Its turkey crop Eash spring
barns and hollow stone heaps, in whlch ar" are
from twelve to sixteen eggs with turkey on,
hung thcsS with the r% q
the so spring nesting lg as New y York telegraph
the MN Noh that
roosts high, for the rugged. woody old towns
infested inten with foxes WHICH know good thing
SKY For years North stonington has raised
thS s bir THAT that goes goes each THANKSGIVING to the
occasionally a so-p9und turkey has s. been the
o Fode f sh hs rsed
to select the gift and forward 1t at his own ex-
the town has had to pick out the bird
Some poultry faneiers pretend but Connecti-
on @5 TIM s aat ts Sa .he is
he is u no better than any other turkey and that
HIT lin 5oF ths %3f5tst Thsy acE ea%p'is%ae
can raise just as good turkeys in Vermont as
eyer swallowed corn corn. but they get kn9Sked
tnSw how TIC h spee of srG ,Se ssy
tbst bird in the clean swee. style
GonneSticnt man Kills his Bird tnd dresses Il AZ
once on clean as 2 whistle. hangs 1t IN his pantry
day 1t Is wrapped up in the cleanest white
the dealer at the tail OF the farm wagon there
Is his turkey, as neat as pin. and # looks SO
t he fresh color is so fine the whole length OF it.
from toes to. beak, he says at once, Name
your price and trot out your BIRDS That's the
the farmer his extra money for style: Why.
turkeys last fall for exactly the same figures
hnd to nay for Hr ibst raised II this
connecticut birds enough to supply my Gus.
toners. That's what style does you 81 e.
In tapering of the turkey fattening process,
srsly oa Sss ao de seem pc
about fortnight lor little earlierl before the
Lurkeys are to be slaughtered feed the flock on
hickory nuts. Take the bird each morning
walnuts. The first morning give him one wal.
nut. the second two nuts, and so on until his
Tally dose Is seven walnuts at q meal Then
again; Give him seven walnuts the first morn
ng. six the next. and 80 on with the reverse
,Tle until you have given him. only one nut.
[ FL ,bo EN- him and II he not found to be 50
le vii! sweat at the nose, then-.well, then the
yalnuts arc poor. Feeding the turkey on
hickory nuts serves two ends; It pleases the
Ijsksy and ID there is in it too
n fat. He opens his eyes and mouth. and
Ieeps them open. fixed as the armament. All
70 o. has to do Is to swallow. You slip the nutipi
pasmodtc snap in the neck. swallow, and
he nut has gone home, The turkey smiles,
lis PHI reopens naturally. and you poke
Il hickory nuts he will come up to the suffers
ent next morning without any invitation, and
raw between your knees, But you want to
hroat. Look out. too. and not give a cracked
mt, =, which would have the same bad effect on
ne turkey q The Of this fattenins
turkey very quickly"